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Staff Data Scientist, Algorithm, Financial Markets Engineering

San Francisco

SpringCube

Full-time - Senior Engineer

Fintech

Posted 4 weeks ago

Disclosed upon interview

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Job Description

The SpringCube team curated the following job opportunity to help you in your job search. Explore the position below to find your next career move.

Company Overview

A global financial technology company provides unified payments and financial infrastructure for businesses worldwide. Its platform supports business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance solutions at global scale.

The organization operates across multiple international offices and brings together teams focused on building innovative financial products and infrastructure. Its data science organization works across applied data science, data engineering, and platform solutions to support rapid growth and solve complex problems across the financial technology ecosystem.

About the Team

The global data science team works across Australia, China, the United States, and Singapore, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and other cross-functional teams.

The team applies advanced data science, engineering, and analytical techniques to solve complex business problems and develop solutions that support the future of financial technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and drive the modeling and analysis roadmap for the FX product.
  • Identify high-impact opportunities and prioritize analytical initiatives in partnership with Product Managers.
  • Develop and maintain models to forecast and monitor FX rate volatility.
  • Provide actionable insights to support trading and execution strategies.
  • Apply statistical and machine learning models to optimize FX trade execution.
  • Focus on minimizing execution costs, improving routing efficiency, and managing market risk exposure.
  • Conduct customer cohort, profitability, segmentation, and other data-driven analyses.
  • Translate analytical findings into actionable trading and product decisions.
  • Partner with Product Managers, Traders, Risk, Engineering, and other stakeholders.
  • Clearly communicate analytical insights and recommendations to cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
  • Influence business strategies and decision-making through rigorous analytical work.

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of industry experience.
  • Advanced degree, such as a PhD or MS, in a quantitative field including Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, Computer Science, or Economics.
  • Strong ability to perform statistical analysis and develop machine learning models to support data-informed decisions.
  • Expert proficiency in data querying languages such as SQL.
  • Strong proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and/or statistical or mathematical software such as R.
  • Experience communicating analytical results to executives and cross-functional teams.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of financial markets, foreign exchange, and/or dynamic trading systems.
  • Experience working in technology, financial services, or trading environments.
  • Experience working in high-growth organizations.
  • Experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling.
  • Experience applying machine learning and statistical modeling to financial or trading problems.
  • Experience working closely with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Trading teams.

Attributes Valued

  • Demonstrates strong ownership and a builder-oriented mindset.
  • Brings curiosity, sound judgment, and a first-principles approach to problem-solving.
  • Balances speed and rigor when making decisions.
  • Works collaboratively and demonstrates humility.
  • Takes ideas from initial concept through implementation and measurable impact.
  • Uses AI and emerging technologies to improve productivity and solve complex problems.
  • Thrives when working on high-visibility and technically challenging problems.
  • Demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning and professional growth.

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